Remember the Gear Fit? More than two years ago, everyone was excited to check it out because it was the first fitness tracker to feature a curved display that was supposed to hug your wrist and not look completely weird on it. The hype only lasted a couple of months as Samsung released wearable upon wearable dragging the Gear Fit into oblivion by sheer intra-brand competition. It seems that the concept wasn't completely abandoned though as Samsung is gearing up (oh snap!) to release a second generation of the product.

According to Evan Blass (aka Evleaks), the Gear Fit 2 should be more curved and thus more ergonomic to wear, and it'll also have a GPS chipset to allow for more data tracking while running or biking for example.

However, I'm personally more interested in the second part of this leak: the Gear IconX. This is a set of completely wireless earbuds that are very similar in design and features to Bragi's The Dash, which I am testing right now. Evan says that they should be water and dust-resistant, have a touch-enabled interface for controls, ship with a carry case, and come with 4GB of onboard storage for those instances where you don't want to or can't stream music over Bluetooth. Like underwater, I suppose. There's no telling if they have activity tracking features by themselves, but that's honestly one aspect of The Dash that I almost never use.

The thing that excites me most about the IconX is that they look smaller than The Dash so they might fit my ears better. I will have to wait to find out though, because Evan's leak didn't include any specific timeline or prices.

That's because VB's site changes the URL when you scroll down to another article. UGH, I grabbed the wrong one. Fixing.

DrakeTungsten

Shouldn't that be intra-brand competition?

user311

Hopefully this works better than The Dash. The Dash isn't bad but I need to wear my 4g gear s2 on my right wrist to keep a solid connection just to listen to music while running. Its rather annoying as I usually wear my watch on my left and it just feels awkward. At least the connection between the 2 buds is pretty solid.

gqukyo

Unless you're streaming music, just put some music into the dash itself. That's what I did. Works fine. Current iteration is clunky but works.

user311

Yeah, it really is clunky. Unfortunately I usually do stream as my music tastes always change and 3.5GB isn't nearly enough space, so Milk Music it is. Can't wait to see how Samsung's buds perform.

akzidenz

Another joke curved thing running Shitzen...

I'll pass thanks

Matthew Rebmann

Are you twelve? Shitzen? Come on, son.

q

More crap to get suckers to part with their money. Get it now, everyone, it's the hot new thing ..... for a couple of weeks.

sgtguthrie

But why the Tizen!

lpp

Tizen has given me better battery life than android on my old galaxy gear.

Worse features, better battery. I don't think you can say that one is in every way better than the other, although who wouldn't love to have both in one device?

sarxion

I think you can, at least objectively. Despite all the shit phones get for having terrible battery life, most people enjoy using all their phone's features regardless of what is considered efficient battery life usage.

Even with the worse battery life, I'd rather have an android wear device over a pebble/tizen device just because of how much more it can do and will do in the future thanks to the far bigger dev support. Plus, there's tasker.

tintin.92

I dunno, I enjoyed using my OG Pebble way more than my current SW3, simply because I don't like charging my watch everyday. Pebble has Tasker too. And the extra stuff that Wear does, it's quick or reliable enough to be worth anything.

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Disqus_deez

My become still needs to be changed even 2 days. So Tizen is still lacking in my opinion

aatifsumar

Wow. Samsung's version of Bragi's Dash. Wonder what the battery life will be like.